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On 31/07/2012 02:20, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 22:56:48 +0000, Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com>
> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>
>> Sigh, and I'm also not keen on multi-line list comprehensions, specifically
>> because I think they tend to make less readable code.  It also becomes a
>> mess when you need to insert print statements to get some visibility into
>> what's going on.
>
> 	Cleanly splitting the list-comp by
>
> 	[ result-computation
> 		for-item-selection-clause
> 		if-filter-clause ]
>
> isn't that unreadable... But anyone doing
>
> 	[ result-
> 		-computation for-item-
> 		-selection-clause if-
> 		-filter-
> 		-clause ]
>
> should be pecked to death by a dead parrot.
>

Any particular species?

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.